World’s Smallest Transistor Is Cool But Won’t Save Moore’s Law

[Megalith]

Researchers have created a 1-nanometer transistor gate, and while some believe this may salvage Moore’s Law to some extent, MIT thinks that'd just be wishful thinking because it’d be really difficult to put billions of transistors on a single chip.

…the researchers explain that the device has been built using carbon nanotubes and molybdenum disulfide, creating a transistor with a gate length of just one nanometer. It’s an impressive achievement, and—in theory, at least—it means that it would be possible to squeeze far more of the small switches into a chip than could ever be achieved with silicon. For some context, the current state-of-the-art chips use transistors with a 14-nanometer gate, and 10-nanometer chips are on the way. The result is, however, just a proof of concept—a long way from a viable product. Turning these nanotube transistors into a processor would require billions of the switches to be reliably created on a single chip. That may be possible, but it could also be cripplingly expensive.

 

[Galvin]

Well we haven't started to make stacked CPUs yet. So there's still a lot of headroom.

 

[lostinseganet]

Well maybe that 1nm tech could be used like a 7nm or 5nm tech with the same amount of tech. Just in certain useful places it could be more dense? Open up those bottlenecks in places.

Perhaps the extra space could be used for stacking, and transferring info between stacks? Like 3-4 gpu's on one board with 2 of each gpu intertwined into each other like a sphere. Two gpus would make 1 half of a sphere, and the other two the other half....would be pretty cool to look at at least (The end result would look like Saturn with the board touching the computer being Saturns rings.

 

[Quix]

"Moore's law" has been dead for years, people keep changing the rules to claim it isn't.

 

[clockdogg]

'Moore's Law' wasn't so much a Law as an observation with a pretty long shelf date.